Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enrollment headquarters for the 1st Regiment Etranger are in Algiers, Algeria. But Reader Ragean and friends have small chance of being paroled to the Legion unless the Florida board of pardons has been reading bad fiction lately...
These three lists usually agree on the leading titles but often disagree on a book's relative popularity. In January, Publishers' Weekly found Madame Curie the best-selling non-fiction book, with 72 of 104 booksellers giving it first place. The Herald Tribune gave it second place, led by The Importance of Living, which was put fourth by Publishers' Weekly...
...Fiction...
Dance of Death-Helen McCloy-Morrow ($2). The story of a body, uncannily resembling a celebrated debutante, found in a snowdrift, solved by a psychiatrist whose medical and psychological analyses make more sense than scientific details usually do in detective fiction...
...writers a powerful insight into the workings of the minds of criminals, fighting men and tough characters in general. Imitators who borrowed his peculiar style soon burned themselves out, but the full impact of Hemingway's major achievement is just beginning to make itself felt in U. S. fiction. Last week a young Arizona novelist showed what happens when the legendary heroes of the Old West-men of the cast of Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday-are examined with an understanding gained from Hemingway's studies of later desperadoes. They emerge as quick on the trigger as ever...